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pcfarrar said:
I've got an AC LR mounted on the ceiling upstairs in my house. I live next door to a park and I can sit on a bench in the park well over 50m away and still get a solid WiFi connection on my iPhone. Really impressed with it, coverage to the whole house and garden from the single AP is excellent.
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Sounds like a possible business opportunity right there! :p
 
DIABLO said:
Why not consider a Edge Router X? it is only £50 and it has some benefits over a Lite in that is tiny and can be re-purposed as 5 port hardware switch. A UAP AC Lite should be fine in doors you won't really benefit from getting a Pro unless A. you had a lot of wireless devices going full chat at the same time or B. you have Laptops with 3x3 mimo. I very much doubt the signal will penetrate though a external wall and go 30m down the garden though you might need to fit an external AP such as a Pro. My Lite for example has to travel maybe 3 metres across a room though a external wall and the signal reaches maybe reaches about 15 metres.

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Brilliant, that sounds like a plan and will end up costing about the same as one of these consumer wireless routers with 390 aerials sticking out of them.

Will go read up on setting it up and watch a few videos like the one linked.

I'll be getting a 24 port switch eventually when the house renovations are complete so no major rush for switch options atm.

Not bothered about garden access really, it's Aberdeen not the SE :D

Cheers.
 
Since I've been on the road all Christmas and NY, I fancied treating myself!

I've ended up with buying a Edge Router X to mate with my LR that I've had for a few months now.

Main reason being I have a modded HG612 doing nothing, and I'll probably sell the Billion 8800AXL.

I've had a few niggles with the likes of the NAS not been visible without a physical reboot when the Billion or the NAS has been rebooted, so I was planning on a bottom up refresh, so a brilliant time to introduce some new gear.
 
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Randell Floyd said:
I've ended up with buying a Edge Router X to mate with my LR that I've had for a few months now.
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I got an Edge Router X a few months ago and it's been excellent. Only time I had to reboot it was for a firmware update. Everything just works and it's really reliable. With my old Asus router I often had issues with uPnP and the Xbone but the edge router has been flawless for gaming.
 
pcfarrar said:
I got an Edge Router X a few months ago and it's been excellent. Only time I had to reboot it was for a firmware update. Everything just works and it's really reliable. With my old Asus router I often had issues with uPnP and the Xbone but the edge router has been flawless for gaming.
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Good to hear, simply coming from how good the LR has been I should have bought the router a few months ago. The Billion was brilliant when launched, but in the process of adding a NEST, Solar, NAS, CCTV and a host of other devices, something has confused something!

Most sorted via static IP via NAT, and the Fibre side has been rock stable with profile going from 60/14 to 80/20 (although I must add BT have been seriously busy adding capacity in out village the last couple of months).

Will give the HG612 a run, if no issues then the Billion can find another home.
 
Is Edge Router X good replacement for a HomeHub 5?

I have a HG612 and also an AP-AC-LR already, so just looking to replace my HH5 with something smaller/more robust.
 
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USG and AP-AC-Lite should suffice, depends on the walls though.

Bear in mind that you'll need a switch (any gigabit switch will work), otherwise you'll only have 1x LAN port.

Whatever you do, make sure each access point is connected up via ethernet.
 
Mr.Shabz said:
Is Edge Router X good replacement for a HomeHub 5?

I have a HG612 and also an AP-AC-LR already, so just looking to replace my HH5 with something smaller/more robust.
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The Edge Router X is a good upgrade from a Hub 5. Definitely more reliable but significantly more complicated to setup.

You can also power the Edge Router X with the injector from the AC-LR and then pass it through to supply the AP.
 
bledd said:
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USG and AP-AC-Lite should suffice, depends on the walls though.

Bear in mind that you'll need a switch (any gigabit switch will work), otherwise you'll only have 1x LAN port.

Whatever you do, make sure each access point is connected up via ethernet.
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Cheers, I'll probably just get the ERX as its cheap and should easily do what my limited knowledge needs it to do. :)

Extra savings for a 24port unmanaged switch as I'll be using most of those ports with every tv point wired up with multiple connections with redundancy for HDMI over ethernet cables that I've also run to all the plastic boxes in the walls.
 
I caved and bought a Ubiquiti CK controller because it looks cool and I'm a sucker for gadgets.

I'll move my controller off its VM this weekend :o.
 
platypus said:
Just hope its easy to setup. I had to monkey around with the USG more than I should have.
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Easy enough. Even easier if you're either decomissioning the current VM Or can change it's IP address.

What I did recently was:

- Grab a backup out of your current controller
- Shut down the VM (or change IP address and disable the Unifi service if keeping the VM)
- Fire up CK
- Set CK IP address to match what the VM was using
- Restore the backup from the VM into the CK

That worked fine for me.
 
Why don't overclockers sell Ubiquiti kit? They are increasing in popularity all the time and they have loads of new hardware coming out in the next few months.
 
pcfarrar said:
Why don't overclockers sell Ubiquiti kit? They are increasing in popularity all the time and they have loads of new hardware coming out in the next few months.
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Their network hardware selection has been fairly poor for a while now so my guess is they don't sell too much of it although I feel that Ubiquity is more in line with their target market
 
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